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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9581362" data-attributes="member: 20564">I'd be interested in WotC selling them, or other digital media that doesn't rely on their goodwill.Sure, not caring is a good way not to be bothered.  However, I've been burned by this in the past.  I was in the middle of running a 3.5 campaign that lasted for 7 years when WotC removed everything digital it had for that edition.  Forums, articles, inspiration from Perkin's Iomedra campaign -- all gone.  It was worse in 4e, as I had the rules and the online character builder, and the two games I was playing in all I had left were the unerrata'd core rules I bought before they offered the online and printouts of my characters that I needed to reverse-engineer to level up.So if you are willing to drop all campaigns when WotC pulls support and truthfully will not be bothered by doing so, you're made of a different stuff than I am.You mentioned DDB before, and I really don't approve of you moving the goalpost.  I talked about removing everything digital when a new version came out so as to promote the new version.  They kept the D&D website, just removed the content.  DDB as a platform will probably continue to exist, so that's never been what I've been talking about.  It's the content for a particular version that I am worried about.Just think about how when the 2024 rules were coming out they were defaulting to updating a number of character options on existing 2014 characters to 2024 rules regardless.  And they're reduced functionality for 2014 games by making all the tool-tips 2024.  Even with a "it's the same edition!" cry for several years, they try to push everyone into purchasing the latest.</blockquote>

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